Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1015 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M375X overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (44%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be quite a bit (approximately 24%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M375X. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9800 (24%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 560 (3%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.